- Catch.
- [Both] Oh my gosh.
- Don't worry, I have got life insurance.
Whisk, smash.
(Becky gasps) (Barry laughs)
Hey, that's good!
- No it's not!
(bright music)
- Hello everybody. - Hello.
♪ Mrs. B is back, back again ♪
I knew you were gonna do that.
- Sorry. You're back.
- I'm back.
- Are you healthy?
- Yep, I'm healthy. I'm better.
I've got a bit of energy. I'm awake.
- A bit of energy, that's more than any...
Yeah, Mrs. B, as we know,
was a little bit poorly the start of the year
with the old Cove, hey?
- Yeah.
- Mrs. B, Chloe, and Phoebe were all down with it.
It was horrible, guys. Honest to gosh, you should see her.
"Oh please help me. Please, please."
But Mrs. B, my rock,
my sole partner when it comes to kitchen hack testing,
which is the latest video we're doing today
on the playlist "Kitchen Hacks."
I've picked them.
Not because you had COVID, because it's my turn.
- I don't know if it is your turn.
I just said, "I'll do it with you, you just pick them."
(both laughing)
- Some are a little bit quick and quirky.
Some are a bit weird and messy and they probably won't work.
That's my thoughts.
- Okay.
- Shall we get going? - Yeah, let's get going.
- Hack number one.
Ever in the situation where you wanted mash potato, right?
Mashed potato.
- Careful.
- Mashed potato. - Mm-hmm.
- And not be bothered to peel the potato.
I'm gonna show you how.
- How what?
- To do the mashed potato hack.
I just said it. I just said it.
- How what? - Are you still, are you okay?
This is what long COVID is. Are you okay?
Oh no, that's my wife. - Brain fog.
- It's my wife.
(bright music)
Look, Mrs. B. Potatees.
- A potato. - A spud.
We're just gonna boil the potato.
Tell them about your nan's story with potatoes and mud.
- Oh, how she doesn't...
In the summer or whenever, she'll only buy new potatoes
if they're loose and covered in mud.
She doesn't like buying them in a bag.
- Do you get that?
Has anyone else got a relative that does that?
Must have mud on it?
Does she not trust that they're potatoes?
Are they like made of polystyrene?
- I dunno.
I think that's just the way she's always eaten them.
- Oh right. - Growing up and stuff.
- Maybe it's an old people thing.
This is nuts. That is nuts.
- Oh gosh.
- Have you ever been in a situation
where you have got some nuts in your hand?
No.
Ever been in the situation where you have got some almonds,
blanched almonds, but you want them chopped
and you forgot to buy a bag of chopped almonds,
but luckily you've got an apple gadget thing.
- Okay. Yeah.
- So apparently this hack, that you've got some nuts,
this apple slicer corer thing here
which is absolutely amazing.
Doubles up as a almond or other nuts are available chopper.
- Okay.
- [Barry] So yeah, if you've not seen this before,
we've used it, we've had it over the years, loads of times.
This thing, as you push down on an apple,
it cores it, and then slices it into wedges.
And the kids and big kids love it.
- I go like this? Just like that?
- Yeah, just like bash away and it should.
Yeah, that's it.
Just keep moving round and round like that.
There we go.
- [Becky] Oh, I see. Oh, this is a good idea.
- [Barry] That working all right?
- [Becky] Yeah.
- [Barry] And of course you're coring them as well.
You're coring the nuts.
- Coring the nuts.
- You're coring the nuts. This guy's crazy.
- I think that's a good one.
It's a lot quicker than just getting a knife and-
- Well, that's the point, yeah.
It's supposed to be like a multi-prong knife thing.
But these aren't really...
Oh, they are fairly sharp. - They are sharp.
- Aren't they? My god, yeah.
- 'Cause I hurt my thumb a minute ago.
I think that's a success that one.
- Is that a pass?
- I think that's a pass.
- Yes! - That's a good one.
- I mean that's the first
full hack of the year. - Well done.
Whoo-hoo! - And it's a pass.
- Off to a good start.
- It's nuts.
- Crazy nuts.
- Crazy, in brackets,
nuts. - Nuts.
- This is what I'm trying to show. Look at this.
This is our next hack, okay? Did you see that?
I hope I've got that clip right.
Have you ever been the situation, right,
where you wanna crack an egg?
- Yes?
- And you don't wanna just slam it down on the counter
like we've done before.
- Okay. - You don't wanna use a knife.
- No. - You don't wanna just tap it
on the side of a bowl,
but you've got a whisk in the middle drawer down there.
You are supposed to be able
to walk up to an egg like this, okay?
- Oh God.
- Right, that's not worked.
But you are supposed to go.
Ah, okay.
- And you didn't crack it?
- That, okay, this is not one hack.
This is two hacks for the price of one, potentially.
Look. Look at that, that's amazing.
- So what do you do with it now?
- Smash it on the side of the jug.
- What? Why, what?
- To crack the egg. Honestly.
- What, just go like that?
- Yeah.
- But isn't it gonna go all over the side?
- Well, if you aim it right,
it should fall in and the shell should stay in the whisk.
Right? - Okay.
- Do you get me? - Yeah.
- Go on. - Oh, I'm nervous.
- Let's do a little bit of role play.
- Ah, I'm scared. Okay.
- It's like choreography. You go whisk, smash, boom.
Okay, go with me at home, all right?
Or from the bus.
Whisk, smash, boom.
Whisk, smash. Smash.
Yes. Yes?
- No.
- [Becky] Look.
- [Barry] Oh, the egg's coming out. Look.
- [Becky] Yeah, it's got the shell in there.
- [Barry] Oh right, yeah.
- And egg on the work top.
Oh, I don't like that one.
- Do you know what happened, folks?
She didn't do her egg, smash, boom right. I'll do it.
- I knew you were gonna say that.
- Egg, smash, boom. Yeah?
- Whisk, smash, boom.
- Right, ready?
- Ready.
- Whisk, smash. (laughs)
Hey, that's good.
- No it's not!
- Yes it is!
- You just got eggshell everywhere.
- I've got some on my arm.
- You've got it all over the bin, blew all over here.
- Oh gosh.
I obviously don't know how to whisk, smash, boom, do I?
- No, you don't. You're doing it wrong. (laughs)
- Oh no.
You can't deny there is egg in there.
Well, we can say that half of it worked, right?
The grabbing of the egg is genius.
- I understand the concept, but it's rubbish.
- Folks, it takes a surprisingly long amount of time,
doesn't it, to wait for a potato to cool down.
We're just kinda like (sighs).
♪ Da, da, da, what shall we do ♪
We could have played actual hot potato, thinking about it.
- Oh yeah.
- So I asked Mrs. B off camera,
"What do you think we're gonna do?"
And you said, "Peel the skin off."
Which isn't really a hack.
- No.
- So what we are gonna do
is let you read your text message you just got.
It's all right.
Least someone texts her. No one texts me.
Maybe I should have like an actual YouTube phone and...
No, that's a really bad idea.
- [Becky] Oh my gosh. No.
- A cooling rack. A wire rack, if you will.
Right, so we normally put cookies
and things like that on here.
We take a potato, place it down like this, okay?
And we push the potato through here.
- Ah.
- Okay?
- Why didn't you just do it with your palm?
- You're supposed to, I dunno why I did it so tenderly.
Look. - That's good!
- And look, and you are left with the skin, sort of.
- It looks like-
- Yeah, it-
- Scene of a crime.
- Kinda leaves the skin there.
- That's good.
- Although it is getting stuck. It's very segmented, ugh.
- I like this, this is a good one.
- Well, that's it. That's the hack.
That's why we just spent
about half an hour waiting for potatoes to cool.
- I like it.
- That's cool, right?
You can literally get your hands on, find a little spot.
Oh my gosh! But look at that.
If you're quite confident with it like that-
- And then just-
- They peel off most of it, yeah.
Okay, we've got one teeny bit of skin there
but we got a bit excited.
- I like that hack. That's another good one.
- Huh? Mashed potato for tea.
- Is that all we were waiting for?
- What do you mean, "Is that all we were waiting for?"
Mate, you wouldn't wanna do that with a hot potato.
- We were waiting for like 45 minutes just to do that.
I would've done that with a hot potato.
- Would you? - Yeah.
- You are sinister, Mrs. B.
Mrs. B, we're gonna get married again, all right?
I'm gonna be the bride. Where is this going?
Ready? - Yeah.
- Nice.
Have you ever been in a situation
where you've got a whole broccoli in your hands?
- Yes, right now.
- Okay, so you are gonna cook that broccoli.
What would you do?
- I would probably waste most of it.
I just cut it all off there so you have the little bits,
and then boil it.
- Oh, cut the little florets up, right?
We're not gonna do that.
We're gonna cook the broccoli
without you having to play with the frolics.
- I think I might know what we're gonna do.
- What?
- Which is probably what I should do anyway.
- What?
- Are we just gonna stick it in there like that?
- Yeah.
- I've seen someone do this.
- And this apparently, well, it's gonna cook it, isn't it?
I feel like we need a teeny bit more water
to submerge the whole thing.
Or a bigger pan. - A bigger pan.
I think it'll be all right
'cause these bits will get steamed by the steam.
- Hmm.
I'll tell you what though, looks blooming weird.
- Mm, it does.
- [Barry] Looks like you're boiling
like a gear stick on a car or something.
- So is that the hack?
- [Barry] Not yet.
- There's more?
- [Barry] Yeah.
- No.
- I just remembered Mrs. B's nickname
when we worked on summer camp
used to be Becky Broccoli, didn't it?
And I was Barry Burger.
- Because we played a game and we had to,
like when we were all getting to know each other
and we had to name,
say our name and then a food after our name.
- Oh, how we would say it differently now.
So whilst Becky Broccoli boils over there,
Mrs. B, catch.
- [Both] Oh my gosh.
- I was not ready for that.
- Sorry.
Have you ever a situation where you've got a can-
- Do not open that one.
- Okay, so we've got a can. I wanted to taste it.
This is actually some zero sugar
vanilla-flavored Coca-Cola beverage.
- Test the one that you've not just thrown around the room.
- Okay, have you ever been in a situation
where your ring pull, right, you've accidentally...
It's quite hard to accidentally snap it off. Oh my gosh.
- Oh no! How are you gonna open it?
- Well, this is the hack. Look, watch this.
Look. Mrs. B, look away.
- I am, I am.
- [Barry] This is the hack, right?
- Oh, I've opened it now.
- [Barry] Look at this hack. Look at this, look at this.
- I can't. You told me not to.
- No, I just showed the, I showed the internet, didn't I?
- I can't take it off.
I think they got, right, we'll just double it up.
We'll have two. And they just folded it.
And all they do is just rub this.
- Like a genie in a lamp?
- Yes, or a genie in a can.
- Right. And then it goes boom.
Then what?
- That's it.
I'm really, really scared.
I'm just gonna double check that.
You can just keep rubbing that and I'll-
- Rubbing what? What bit am I rubbing?
- The can.
- No. (laughs)
Which part of the can?
- The bit we're trying to open.
- Yeah, but which? But listen.
- No, no. - That bit?
- No, no, that, yeah. - Or this?
- Fold it in half.
Then, ah, I don't think it really matters.
Oh, you really get...
And then you just...
- Didn't they put it under? They didn't rub it.
- Well, there's not much happening here, folks,
in the can opening Olympics.
(jaunty music)
This was the one that I had the worst hopes for,
so I'm positive that that's a good assumption
before we've even started.
- Good job we're not thirsty, isn't it?
- Well, I did buy a multi pack
and they're available a variety of flavours,
including zero sugar options.
There's four good folds,
and then they're rubbing it with the corner.
10 minutes later, folks. Mrs. B has lost enthusiasm.
- I don't like that.
- You don't like it? - No.
- Well, there goes that brand deal.
I think that's an absolute fail.
(hisses) Imagine that.
We will give this one up. We will try it.
If you have managed to make that work, please get in touch
and let us know if we're doing something wrong.
I might retrospectively try and do it this afternoon
or this evening in my spare time whilst the kids watch TV.
- Have you got nothing else to do?
- I've got nothing else to do.
Oh my gosh, ladies, it's nearly 11:30.
It's time for my diet Coke break.
- Is that what I have to say?
- I just said it.
♪ Da, na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Da, na, na, na ♪
(Barry chokes)
Don't make me laugh. Oh my gosh.
Tastes really nice, actually. Please get in touch, Coke.
- Right, recovered?
- I'm recovered, yeah. Sorry about that.
Happens every day at 11:22 in our house.
How's the broccoli doing, all right?
- Yes. I think it might be done.
- All right, it does look like it's slightly changed angle,
so yeah, turn off the heat, Mrs. B.
I reckon that is ready.
Hi-ya-ya, hi-ya-ya! - Wait, wait, wait!
- Steam, steam, steam, steam, steam, steam, steam!
- Oh sorry, that didn't help- - Steam!
- That I was carrying the-
- "I know, I'll take the steam with you."
Don't worry, I have got life insurance.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's okay.
Do you know what, the one thing I would say about this hack,
right, with that being done like that,
you could potentially submerge the whole thing-
- Could just use the whole thing.
- In water and eat the stalk as well, I suppose.
- If you blended it all up or chopped it all up,
it would be fine.
- Yeah. "Oh Mummy, can I have some broccoli, please?"
That's my roleplay of being one of our daughters.
- Aw.
- If you could do it
so the audience can see what you're doing,
that would be amazing.
- I forgot they were there.
- You're so quiet.
- This is a cool hack.
- It is, isn't it?
- I like this.
- So you can individually snip off portion sizes.
That is a really favourite hack of mine,
because when you slice the broccoli before you put it in,
these little, what do you call them, bumples?
- You lose a lot of it, don't you?
- Yeah, all of these things. - So this stops the mess.
- It's really messy, isn't it? It goes everywhere.
- Yeah.
- I love that.
- I like, that's a good one.
- Thank you.
- You're on fire. I'm just gonna say.
- "You're on, no, you literally are on fire."
"Oh."
- But then that's only two out of-
- All right, beat me while I'm down.
Last one should be blooming...
What are you doing? This isn't a sitcom.
This is gonna be a stonker if it works.
If not, it's gonna be messy fun.
- Okay.
- But first, it's 11:30.
♪ Da, na, na, na, na ♪
Have you been in a situation
where you've got a giant watermelon?
Let me just say it, I bought a giant watermelon
because a giant watermelon in the UK
is probably a small watermelon everywhere else.
You've been in a situation
where you've got a giant watermelon,
you've got a knife, but you can only cut once, okay,
'cause your knife is about to go blunt,
but luckily you have a leftover Pringles tub.
- So in other words, have you ever been in a situation
where you've got a watermelon
and you don't know how to cut it into pieces?
- Yes.
- Are we gonna make the watermelon
smell of salt and vinegar?
- Possibly.
♪ Don't be fooled by the melon that I got ♪
♪ I'm still Barry from the block ♪
- Right, go on then.
- Right, so we're gonna take off the side of the watermelon.
All right, do you wanna do it or shall I?
- You do it. - You sure?
- You've got it in your hand.
Yep, you know what you want done.
- Okay. "You know what you wanna do, that's fine."
- Just do it.
- So we're just gonna go down.
- I feel like that's our marriage.
- Oh.
- That's the motto to our life.
You know what you wanna do. Just do it.
- I'm gonna take a bit more off
whilst I mull over what you just said.
"He does it anyway."
- It doesn't matter.
- "I tell him not to, he does it anyway."
- Oh, are we gonna push this through?
- Yes.
- Oh amazing.
- Right?
So if I hold the baby like this, and if you can insert.
So I'll go like that,
so I'll change that there so people can see, there we go.
You can twist it.
Come on, get it together, Mrs. B.
What's so funny about putting a Pringle can into a melon.
Is this not normal?
Okay, shall I help?
- This is the most bizarre-ist I've ever done.
- No mate, these hacks exist.
This is, we are serving our purpose, right?
Someone has said you are in the wild with a melon,
a knife with only one chance to cut it off,
and an empty Pringles can.
There are people out there that genuinely need our help.
(both laughing)
I know. I know it's hilarious.
- Right, okay. Going in.
- Oh God, keep it straight. Keep it straight.
We wanna go all the way to the end of the melon.
Keep going through, that's it.
Oh my gosh. There you go, look.
Can you hear that juice?
- It just squirted everywhere.
- Yeah, that's fine. Look, look, look.
- Okay.
- Keep going.
- I'm trying but you're in the way.
- Can see its head, push. Right, you ready?
- I'm gonna stab you in a minute.
Don't we just pull it out?
- Yes, apparently.
- Right, hold it then.
- I will, ready? Oh my gosh.
(Barry laughs)
- Is it meant to come out in the tube?
- It's supposed to be in the tube, yeah.
Right, you've got a perfect line there now.
Yeah, if you rotate it a few times, few twists.
Out of context, this is very, very weird.
There's only one way to do this,
and that's to use the knife again.
It ain't coming out of there now.
Here, okay? I might hit the tub.
- No, I just pulled it out a bit.
- Oh, did you?
- Oh.
- Oh look. Yeah, you can see where we've come through.
Right, Mrs. B, go through.
- I got it.
- Ah.
- Yeah, it's a bit of at a funny angle.
- So now you should be able to pull it out.
Ah, there we go. - Yay!
Have we not just got a bit with all the seeds in?
- Well, maybe, but don't let reality get...
Oh, look at that!
Reality get in the way of a interesting looking melon.
Got the leaning tower of melon. Look at that!
- That's a good hack. I like that.
- Is it?
- (laughs) Funny.
- I mean, yeah.
You could then slice down there
and have all loads of sticks, couldn't you?
But what you're supposed to do is slice a disc like this.
- Ah.
- So you've got patties of melon.
- Oh, good idea.
- I'm out of breath, are you? That was emotional.
- I think there's easier ways to get melon.
- There really are.
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Right? - Yes.
- Because we've got quite a lot on there,
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after watching the playlist that we haven't done yet,
keep them coming, we've got a good list already,
but we will have a little look and we'll rota who does them.
- Yep.
- What was your favourite hack today, Mrs. B?
- Oh, just for entertainment, the watermelon,
but for practicality, I think the broccoli.
- Yeah, the broccoli is genius.
- For the florets.
- Although your advert was amazing.
- Thanks, mate. And on that note, it is 12 minutes to 12.
Time for another diet Coke break.
♪ Da, na, na, na ♪
(Barry chokes)
♪ It's got all the notes, baby, like a treble clef ♪
♪ Cooking up this song like the naked chef ♪
♪ I know what you're thinking, British guy drinking tea ♪
♪ But I'm gangster British baby, I prefer chickpeas ♪
♪ The princess Pat ♪
♪ Lived in a tree ♪
♪ She sailed across the seven seas ♪
♪ She sailed across the channel too ♪
♪ And she brought with her a rick-a-bamboo ♪
♪ A rick-a-bamboo ♪